Re: Explicit copying into the clipboard without selecting

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Seems like this should be standardized in the HIG and the discussion
moved to usability@

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 11:05 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 00:13, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Docs I've found relating to clipboard selections (mostly the fd.o
> > ‘spec’) do not seem to cover the case in which something is copied into
> > the clipboard without previously selecting it, like you can do by right
> > clicking on a url in gnome-terminal or evolution, and selecting the Copy
> > Link Address/Location menu item. Should this change both the CLIPBOARD 
> > -and- the PRIMARY selections, or just the CLIPBOARD?
> 
> 	This was discussed only the other day on xdg list:
> 
>   http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-June/004108.html
> 
> 	Only two people expressed an opinion there and that was that it set
> both selections.
> 
> 	Personally, that makes sense to me too. PRIMARY gets overwritten every
> time you select something to copy it to CLIPBOARD, so its kind of like
> volatile storage. I think setting CLIPBOARD without setting primary
> would be likely to cause more confusion than actually providing benefit
> to anyone.
> 
> 	The clock applet's "Copy Date & Time" thing now sets both selections.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 
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